America

• 10 June 2010
  AMERICA - Year for Priests comes to a close: “a year not only for priests, but for the entire People of God” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Approximately 15,000 priests from nearly 100 countries are now in Rome participating in the International Encounter for the close of the Year for Priests declared by Pope Benedict XVI on ...
• 10 June 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Formation for missionaries to the Amazon: “Before reaching foreign lands, the missionary should be familiar with the situation of the place.” Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – June 9 marked the opening day at the Mission Cultural Center (JCC) in Brasilia, for the first missionary training course which is focusing on the Amazon. The event, organized by the Bishops' ...
• 9 June 2010
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Tons of food products left to expire could have fed 500,000 needy families Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The scandal connected with tons of food purchased abroad to feed the poorest Venezuelans and then left to expire in their containers is occupying a prominent place in the media and public deba ...
• 9 June 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - An “online special” on living the World Cup with Christian virtue Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – To support the faithful, parishes, and schools that are organizing events for living the World Cup in their families and communities, the website of the Chilean Bishops' Conference o ...
• 8 June 2010
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Archbishop Ulloa: “We cannot abandon the Christian meaning of Sunday, paganizing it or underestimating its importance.” Panama (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Panama, Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta has rejected the government's intention to no longer consider Sunday as a day of required rest, supposedly to help entrepreneur ...
• 8 June 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Catholic Church pleased with Funes' “important steps towards democracy” San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador has acknowledged that President Mauricio Funes has made "significant steps" in democracy during his first year in office. Without going into political d ...
• 7 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Church speaks out: Gold workers given low pay and no insurance Madre de Dios (Agenzia Fides) – The Human Rights Office of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Maldonado in Peru has reported on the continuing complaints reaching them from the workers of the lowest classes. They have b ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Over 3,000 children attend National HCA Meeting despite rain San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Saturday, May 29, at the auditorium of the Don Bosco Citadel in Soyapango, San Salvador hosted the IX National Meeting of the Pontifical Missionary Society of the Holy Childhood Associati ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Lay missionary in prison ministry dies in the waters of Rio Negro Rio Negro (Agenzia Fides) – A prison ministry worker and lay missionary, Pedro Fukuyei Yamaguchi Ferreira of the Diocese of San Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the Amazon (Brazil), was found dead after he was reported missing ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Meetings with indigenous communities, to avoid repeating Bagua clashes Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos of Trujillo, has welcomed the attempt proposed by the Peruvian government to resolve the problems that exist in the A ...
• 4 June 2010
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "We should be the ones to offer that little or a lot we have to those who have lost everything": casualties mount from storm in Central America, Holy Father's appeal Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Dead, injured, and many left homeless, destroyed homes, roads covered with mud, isolated communities: there is still not yet an exact account of the damage left from Tropical Storm Agatha ...
• 4 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Sharing the joy of being disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ”: Ad Gentes Course 2010 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Colombia, Fr. Mario Alvarez Gómez, has sent Fides a statement on the "Ad Gentes Course 2010," which began May 31 and ends June 25 ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Migrants, refugees, and victims of human trafficking: people like ourselves, human beings with a name, hopes and dreams, fears and disappointments Washington (Agenzia Fides) - “The starting point for ministering to migrants, refugees, trafficked persons is to understand their situation and all its components, personal, social, economic, political in the light of ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Pontifical Mission Societies honors Catholic journalists writing on Church's worldwide mission New Orleans (Agenzia Fides) – According to a note recently sent to Fides from the National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the USA, the PMS will be paying tribute to Catholic journalists who have de ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Cuzco prepares for HCA Missionary Congress on August 21 Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) - "We missionary children sow hope for making a better place" is the theme of the Missionary Congress of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood Association (also known as “Missionary Childho ...